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In Reply to: RE: LOL, I really feel for the poor guy. Who da thunk. posted by Coner on December 19, 2016 at 17:06:05:
Yet they claim (the utilities, and I beleive them) that magnets don't affect the meter. Still, they own the meter box, so best left alone.In my city, and the surrounding cities around and including the metro, the meter enclosure/socket belongs to the property owner. Only the meter is the property of the Utility Power Company. The seal on the meter enclosure also is the property of the power company.
My understanding of Smart Meters, commonly used today, is they have the ability to detect any type of meter tampering. Not sure of the technology used though.
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True story.
The water pressure to our home is 100+ pounds from the city mains. I was having problems with water hammering in the house. I have two water meters. One for the domestic water used inside the house the other for outside hose bibs and an inground lawn watering irrigation system. The water line from the street to the house is 1" soft copper.
About 6 years ago I got sick of hearing the water hammering and installed two water pressure reducing regulators after each of the meters.
The one for the domestic water meter line I dropped the pressure to 65 pounds. That stopped the water hammering of the PEX water lines in the house.About two or three weeks later, after installing the pressure reducing regulators, I got a letter from the city water company saying they wanted to schedule a time to change out both meters. I should add I built the house new and the meters had only been in service at the time a couple of years.
I called the city water works and set up a meting time for the meters to be changed out. It was in the middle of the summer. I remember two summer helper college aged kids showed up to change out the meters. I took the two guys to utility room in the basement where the meters are located...
When I opened the door to the room and lead the two guys in one of the guys said to the other guy, "there's the problem".... Problem I thought? What problem? They didn't add anything to the conversation. They just changed out both meters and left. LOL,... I do remember them checking the tamper seal integrity of both meters before removing the two old ones.See both meters they replaced were smart meters. The only thing I could figure out the meters seen a flow rate change and reported the change to the city water works.
Edits: 12/21/16
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